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 And ſo ſhall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midſt of all their uncleanneſſes." This way to be done as you ſee that the tabernacle which was the place of God's preſence and graces might yet remain among the children of Iſrael, not withſtanding their uncleanneſſes and tranſgreſſion; This alſo is the effect of Chriſt's interceſſion; it is, that the ſigns of Gods preſence and his grace might remain among his people, not withſtanding they have by their tranſgreſſions ſo often provoked God to depart from them.

2dly, By Chriſt's interceſſion I gather, that awakened men and women, ſuch as the godly are, dare not, after offence given come in their own names to make unto God an application for mercy. God, in himſelf, is a conſuming fire, and ſin has made the beſt of us as ſtubble is to fire. Wherefore they may not they cannot, they dare not approach Gods preſence for help, but by and through a mediator and interceſſor. When Iſrael ſaw the fire, the blackneſs and darkneſs, and heard the thunder and lightning, and the terrible ſound of the trumpet, they ſaid to Moſes "Speak thou unto us and we will hear: Bet let no: God ſpeak with us, leſt we die." Guilt, and a ſenſe of the diſparity that is betwixt God and us, will make as look out for one that may lay his hand upon us both, and that may ſet us right in the eyes of our Father again. Thus, I ſay, I infer from the interceſſion of Chriſt. For, if there had been a poſſibility of our ability to have approached God with advantage without it, what